The Port of Gšteborg, the largest port in the Nordic region and the only one in Sweden with the capacity to receive post-panamax container vessels, has stepped up its transport of boxes by rail with the launch of RailPort Scandinavia. The aim is to bring the shuttle centres' inland terminals closer to the port by allowing them to handle Customs clear...
Commercial Seaport of Odessa plans to build a ro-ro terminal for transshipment of automobiles, the port’s management informs according to RZD-Partner. According to Nikolai Pavlyuk, head of Odessa port, the company understands this type of activities provides large potential. Similar terminal has already been built in the port of Iljichevsk. The project...
Oslo Marine Group completes negotiations with European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on taking of a loan to the amount of EUR 115 million for implementation of the first phase of Vyborg port modernization, the group informs. The money raised is to be spent for reconstruction of surface facilities, replacement of outdated port equipment, repair o...
In January-April, 2008, Ukraine’s state ports (19 commecial seaports) grew by 7.2%, year-on-year, to 43.26 million tonnes, Ukraine’s ministry of Transport and Communications reports. In the same period of the previous year the port complex of Ukraine increased its throughput by 16.9%, year-on-year, RZD-Partner reports. In the reported period of the previo...
Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) handled a total of 21.4 million tons of cargo at all its terminals in the 10 months from July 2007-April 2008, a 20.6 per cent increase over the same period a year earlier. The completion of the Container Berth 8 and 9 project and the addition of four new cranes in Savannah as well as the expansion of the grain and rail ...
A container ship operated by German shipping line Hamburg Sud, the 3,322-TEU Oslo Express, was the first ship in the new Far East-Europe (EU5) liner service of the Grand Alliance to recently sail for the Port of Hamburg. The Oslo Express is the first of eight container ships used in this new weekly Far East container shipping service to be cleared at...
Oakland's port has a new strategy to improve its docks and boost revenue: Find deep-pocketed investors willing to foot the bill for what could be millions of dollars worth of upgrades to its shipping terminals. Officials last week began to solicit financiers willing to operate as many as seven of the port's 20 shipping berths and pay for improvements as p...
Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG), the operator of Shanghai Port, handled 2.4 million TEU in April, up 9 per cent year on year, Logistics Week reported. The group's overall cargo tonnage in this month went 9.7 per cent up to 33.2 million tonnes. Foreign trade cargo increased 10.4 per cent to 22 million tonnes. The newer Yangshan port area lift...
Port of Tallinn is the biggest port authority in Estonia and as far as both cargo and passenger traffic are taken into account, the biggest port on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
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